Re: latest procedures for setting up gnopernicus

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Peter,

Thanks. That should help a lot.

John

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 03:30:06PM -0800, Peter Korn wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> One option that should work: using BrlTTY, run 'startx' to start your 
> X/GNOME session, and then still from your text console, 'gnopernicus 
> --enable-braille --braille-port=X --braille-device=<name>' to launch it.  
> Once you've done this once, those settings will persist for that user (in 
> the ~/.gconf database) and you'll only need 'gnopernicus' in the future.
> 
> You of course must also set the gconf accessibility flag, which can be done 
> with the attached script.  Turn the gconf database key on with 
> 'gnome-accessibility on'; find out its state with 'gnome-accessibility'. 
> Thanks to Simon Bates of UToronto for this script.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team
> 
> 
> >I must admit you got me on that one. I'm not a braille display user, and am
> >not quite sure of the logistics of getting braille setup in gnopernicus.
> >Hth.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>
> >To: "Thomas Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>
> >Cc: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak charter net>;
> ><gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> >Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 3:31 PM
> >Subject: Re: latest procedures for setting up gnopernicus
> >
> >
> >
> >>That sounds easy for people who use speech, but what about those of us
> >>who are deaf as well as blind and must use braille? Is it still that
> >>easy?
> >>
> >>John
> >>
> >>On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:11:56PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi Cheryl,
> >>>The dialog box that turns accessibility on is accessible for the most
> >>
> >part.
> >
> >>>Once and a while I do have problems finding the button to logout to
> >>
> >except
> >
> >>>the change, but other wise it works.
> >>>It isn't really all that difficult these days to get a working
> >>
> >gnopernicus.
> >
> >>>1. Install a stable Gnome 2.8 set of packages for your distro with
> >>>gnopernicus packages.
> >>>2. Start x and use alt+f2 to get the run dialog.
> >>>3. Type gnopernicus followed by enter.
> >>>4. Assuming there are no critical errors gnopernicus will start talking
> >>>using festival, and a dialog will appear prompting you to activate
> >>>accessibility.
> >>>5. Answer the questions on the dialog, logout of Gnome, and back in.
> >>>6. Repeat steps 2 and 3.
> >>>
> >>>That is all there is to it. If you want a stable branch of gnopernicus
> >>
> >and
> >
> >>>gnome. Otherwise if you want newer stuff you will have to grab them from
> >>>gnome.org and compile the updated packages.
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak charter net>
> >>>To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> >>>Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 12:49 PM
> >>>Subject: Re: latest procedures for setting up gnopernicus
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Ok kenny, but if accessibility isn't enabled yet, am I even going to
> >>>
> >be
> >
> >>>>able to read the dialog box. Can I still use gconftool-2 to do that
> >>>>beforehand. and don't I need to set up for brltty beforehand with
> >>>>gconftool also?
> >>>>Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>Cheryl
> >>>>
> >>>>"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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